I just can't wait until we are able to actually get to other planet and go see ourself. I am really hoping that we advance medice quick enough that people will have vastly larger life spans, so that it is possible. |
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I just can't wait until we are able to actually get to other planet and go see ourself. I am really hoping that we advance medice quick enough that people will have vastly larger life spans, so that it is possible. |
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Meh, they really know nothing about the planet. It receives roughly the same amount of sunlight as Earth, but it's probably not remotely like Earth. It could have no atmosphere and be freezing, it could have no water on it, it could have a runaway greenhouse effect like Venus, it could be made of gas... |
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We need more advanced ways of magnification- better, keener, observier. |
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We also need a fuel source to travel 600 light years, and be able to travel near (or beyond) the speed of light while keeping said people alive and sustained for that many years... the ship itself would take such huge quantities of resources for fuel, living requirements, etc... |
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Wouldn't it be weird if we ended up being alien invaders? |
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Well the two ways that I see it as being possible would be either freezing yourself, or you upload your mind into a computer. Obviously both takes technology we don't have. However if a person became a robot or uploaded their mind into a computer or something of that nature, they could turn themself off and use no energy and then turn themself back on when they reach the destination. Or if we prefected cryonics you could freeze yourself, and space is cold enough that you don't need power to remain frozen, then when you arrive you could unfreeze yourself. |
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Two words: Generation Ships. |
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Fuel as in energy... for which to keep systems aboard the ship running... I presume you cannot use solar power, since you'd be traveling outside of star systems... |
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Last edited by ThePreserver; 12-06-2011 at 02:30 AM.
Why is everyone talkin bout ships? We have stargates. |
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I stomp on your ideas.
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As far as I can tell the meaning is quite simple; we know of a few planets smaller than Earth, and a few larger than Neptune, but none in the range in between. |
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Well that is obvious, the only planets within a light year of us are the ones in our solar system. The nearest solar system to ours is like 4 light years away, there isn't anything between. |
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The media sure knows how to work a crowd don't they? |
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This is the EXACT conversation I was having with my friend about this planet. They saw a small sphere within the habitable zone. That's it. They know the diameter, and that it's probably the right temperature for water to be liquid (if it even has water.) Buuut everyone is talking about it as if it's a "second earth" (thanks to sensationalist media). For its size it seems likely to be a gaseous planet. |
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Last edited by ThePreserver; 12-06-2011 at 11:43 PM.
What do they mean they don't know what a planet like this looks like? |
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Last edited by tommo; 12-06-2011 at 11:30 PM.
AH, you meant for the ship itself. (I also suspect people wouldn't be mindless consumers aboard a generation ship, too. That would defeat the ship's ability to sustain life for that long.) |
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But do they have any other valuable resources? Metals that can withstand the impact of micro-meteoroids over and over and over as it travels for hundreds of years through space? You need a hell of a lot of resources... you can't build a ship out of pure fuel... OR CAN YOU?! :O |
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